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Mathematics and the Historian’s Craft
The Kenneth O. May Lectures
eBook
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ISBN-13:
9780387282725
Veröffentl:
2006
Einband:
eBook
Seiten:
358
Autor:
Michael Kinyon
Serie:
CMS Books in Mathematics
eBook Typ:
PDF
eBook Format:
Reflowable eBook
Kopierschutz:
Digital Watermark [Social-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
The Kenneth May Lectures have never before been published in book form Important contributions to the history of mathematics by well-known historians of scienceShould appeal to a wide audience due to its subject area and accessibility
The Kenneth May Lectures have never before been published in book form
Important contributions to the history of mathematics by well-known historians of science
Should appeal to a wide audience due to its subject area and accessibility
Introduction: The Birth and Growth of a Community.- History or Heritage? An Important Distinction in Mathematics and for Mathematics Education.- Ptolemy’s Mathematical Models and their Meaning.- Mathematics, Instruments and Navigation, 1600–1800.- Was Newton’s Calculus a Dead End? The Continental Influence of Maclaurin’s Treatise of Fluxions.- The Mathematics and Science of Leonhard Euler (1707–1783).- Mathematics in Canada before 1945: A Preliminary Survey.- The Emergence of the American Mathematical Research Community.- 19th Century Logic Between Philosophy and Mathematics.- The Battle for Cantorian Set Theory.- Hilbert and his Twenty-Four Problems.- Turing and the Origins of AI.- Mathematics and Gender: Some Cross-Cultural Observations.